The Court has just notified a judgment in the case of Labzov v. Russia. It held that there had been a violation of Article 3 (prohibition of inhuman or degrading treatment). The applicant, Vladimir Labzov, was moved to remand prison IZ-21/2 in Tsivilsk on 16 May 2000. He complained of the conditions in which he had been detained. He further submitted that the police had attempted to make him withdraw his application to the Court.
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